Annual Town-Wide Yard Sale in Ocean Grove. Central and Heck. May 10, 2014. This year it is Saturday, May 7, 2016, Paul Goldfinger photo ©
This poster from last year will be updated shortly. The 2016 sale, 5th Annual, will be Saturday May 7 on Mother’s Day weekend.
This will be the Fifth Annual Town-wide Yard Sale, sponsored by Blogfinger. It will, as before, be held on the Saturday of the Mother’s’ Day weekend—May 7, 2016, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Rain or shine.
Each year has been an even better success in terms of number of sellers. Last year, despite some rain, the event was a success nevertheless, with 75 addresses participating in the Grove (some addresses had multiple families together,) and our number of participants surpassed several towns at the shore. Given the charms of Ocean Grove, it was a success from a yard sale perspective, but also as a fun social activity. Many visitors came to OG from out of town. The bigger the participation, the better the event from the point of view of shoppers and yard sailors. 2015 link below.
The sale details are fairly simple. We will maintain a Yard Sale page (usually posted around mid April) at the top of Blogfinger which can be referenced at any time. Any ads that are placed elsewhere, as in the Coaster or in fliers, will refer the reader to the Blogfinger.net yard sale page where they will find a list of participants’ addresses grouped by neighborhood and including the nearest cross street for each address. We will also post a list of sale items for each address. Participants can add more items at any time just by emailing BF.
Anyone can join our listing—the more the merrier. You can even add your address right up to the day before the event. If anyone wants to volunteer to work on promoting the event, printing and handing out fliers or posters, or otherwise helping us advertise it, you can contact us by email at Blogfinger@verizon.net. We are open to any promotional ideas, but if you have one, please consider volunteering to implement it. We have no staff. Merchants can be listed as sponsors for a small fee.
This event is a win-win in town, because that weekend is usually not crowded, so there should be ample parking, and the merchants will benefit from the visitors that we attract. It is a fun day for those who are entertaining Moms here in the Grove. The town-wide yard sale is a terrific social event, so it is more that just a find-a-treasure adventure .
To participate, just contact Blogfinger at our email location (Blogfinger@verizon.net). Tell us your name, house address, cross street, email address and your phone number. You can add the list of specific for sale items later. Signups begin immediately, although we won’t be posting them for awhile. We will set up an email list for us to communicate to participants. Only your sale items, address, and location information will be seen by the public, unless you also want your name or other contact information included.
During the week before the sale, we will advertise in the Coaster and the APP. We will also boost the Blogfinger ads then as well.
So please start getting your stuff together and let us know. If any of you want to advertise elsewhere, be my guest. Just include the Blogfinger web site address (www.Blogfinger.net) and refer the reader to our Yard Sale page.
As for a Neptune Township yard sale permit, you do need one. Just go to the Mother Ship (municipal building on Neptune Boulevard—entrance off Davis Ave. in the back) and go to the construction office. The price for a community yard sale permit is $5.00 per address. Tell them you are with the town-wide yard sale; otherwise it will be $10.00. Remember, you are not allowed to post notices on telephone poles or trees. You can post our flier on your own porch, so let us know if you want a flier. It might be good to post a flier at each location along with some balloons (Yellow is our official color.)
More information to follow.
–Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger
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And if it seems that you’ve heard all this before, here is Harry James with one of our Yard Sale theme songs. It is from the Woody Allen movie Hannah and Her Sisters.